After LTK Day 5 Loss, Shirona Shizuku Says Her Team Must “See the Same Future”
The stream ran more than eight hours and ended with a three-game practice set scheduled for the 5th, ahead of the official match on the 6th.
NEO-PORTE — Shirona Shizuku said the problem for her League of Legends team in the LTK league is that its players are not seeing the same future in team fights. She spoke after the team lost its Day 5 match of the regular stage.
Shizuku streamed the team’s voice call for more than eight hours, and Tachibana Hinano carried the same call on her own channel. The session opened with players quizzing one another on champion details, such as how Nocturne’s spell shield interacts with dragon and Baron attacks, before a warm-up game. One of the participants asked teammates to call dragon timers at a minute and a half, a minute and 40 seconds rather than only once, and to reset and take vision before committing to a fight.
“Everyone has to share the team-fight plan and see the same future, or you can’t win.” — Shirona Shizuku, on the team’s losses
After the draft, one of the participants told teammates, “Start from the front. If we go to the back, we lose.” The match ended in a loss, and the group went back over ward placement and team-fight positioning. They also agreed to try a lane swap around the Void Grubs, a tactic pro teams use, at a coming practice.
The team then watched the day’s other matches together, trading comments as they played, and settled on a practice set of three games starting at 4:30 p.m. on the 5th. The official match is on the 6th.
Hinano’s stream ended around that point and Shizuku carried on alone. She said that when a team shares one picture of a fight, a small mistake still leaves a close result, and that she had grown mentally stronger through LTK. She said a combo she missed in a practice game the day before had cost the team a chance to engage on its carry, and that winning teammates’ trust was part of her job. The stream then turned to a chat session about solo queue: she said she would study Morgana, showed an old handwritten set of Alistar matchup notes, and named reaching the Emerald rank this month as her goal.
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